Prosecutors on Friday charged a 56-year-old man with trespassing and other offenses in connection with an April incident in which knives were found on the school desk of Prince Hisahito.
Kaoru Hasegawa admitted to placing knives on the desk in question at Ochanomizu University Junior ...

Former farm ministry official Hideaki Kumazawa was indicted Friday in connection with the murder of his 44-year-old son earlier this month at their home in Tokyo.
According to the indictment, the former vice minister, 76, stabbed Eiichiro Kumazawa in the neck multiple times at around ...

A North Korean fishing boat captain has been charged with stealing a generator, appliances and other equipment from an uninhabited island off Hokkaido last month.
The skipper, 45, and his nine-man crew were rescued in late November after their dilapidated boat was found adrift near ...

A man accused of killing a tourist from Georgia in a machete attack on an isolated beach in Grenada made his first appearance Wednesday before a judge on the Caribbean island to face a charge of capital murder.
Dave Martin Benjamin did not enter a ...

Reactions in the United States to the escape from Mexican prison of a reputed drug lord ranged from disbelief to outrage, with some observers saying it dramatically illustrated the need for captured cartel kingpins to be promptly extradited to the U.S.
A former administrator of ...

A group of people file a second criminal complaint against a former nuclear safety official and eight others, arguing they failed to take necessary preventive measures in the Fu­ku­shi­ma nuclear crisis.

Prosecutors have delayed for three months a decision on whether to charge three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. for their handling of the 2011 Fukushima disaster, an official with a panel that requested the indictments said Friday.
The Tokyo District Prosecutor's Office had ...